Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy - Couverture rigide

Perlin, Ross

 
9781844676866: Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
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ISBN 10 : 1844676862 ISBN 13 : 9781844676866
Editeur : Verso Books, 2011

Synopsis

Interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand newsrooms, MPs offices, and film sets, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, design high-end fashions, and build the human genome. They are of all ages, and their numbers are growing fast in an increasingly bleak economic landscape for young people. A huge and increasing number of internships are illegal under minimum wage law and this mass exploitation saves companies millions each year. Interns enjoy no workplace protections and no standing in courts of law let alone luxuries such as a living wage. Ross Perlin, a self-confessed intern survivor, has written the first exposé of the brave new world of unpaid work. In this witty, astonishing, and serious investigative work, Perlin takes the reader inside both boutique nonprofits and megacorporations such as Disney. He unmasks a grotesque internship industry where coveted, unpaid placements are auctioned off and universities are complicit in exploiting student labour. He profiles fellow interns, talks to historians about what unleashed this phenomenon, and explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices in locations all around the world. Thought-provoking, insightful, and humorous, Intern Nation is an urgent call to overturn the latest racket in unpaid work.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ross Perlin is a graduate of Stanford, SOAS, and Cambridge, and has written for Time magazine, Lapham's Quarterly, Guardian, Daily Mail and Open Democracy. He is researching disappearing languages in China.

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1844676862
ISBN 13 
9781844676866
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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9781844678839: Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy

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ISBN 10 :  1844678830 ISBN 13 :  9781844678839
Editeur : Verso Books, 2012
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